Tameside Municipal Funeral Service

Bereavement Services

The Municipal Funeral Service is a service provided, at low cost to the customer, by Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council

• Who Can Benefit?
• The Funeral Arrangements
• How To Use The Funeral Service
• What Will The Funeral Service Consist Of?
• What Will It Cost?
• Financial Advice
• Useful Numbers

Who Can Benefit?

The service is available to anyone who has to arrange the funeral for a deceased resident of the Borough, who is to be buried at one of the Borough's Cemeteries or Cremated at Dukinfield Crematorium.

The Funeral Arrangements

In order to provide a dignified Funeral Service for the residents of the Borough, the Council has appointed the long established firm of:

Robinson and Jordan
230 Market Street
Hyde
Cheshire SK14 1HB
0161 368 2441 frlrobinsonjordan@coop.co.uk

How To Use The Funeral Service

If you wish to use the Service, please ring the funeral director on 0161 368 2441, day or night, telling them that you wish to use the Tameside Municipal Funeral Service, the funeral can then be arranged during normal working hours at the Funeral Directors Premises.

What Will The Funeral Service Consist Of?

• Collection of the deceased from within the Borough or within 10 miles radius of the Borough Boundary.
• Dressing and a place at the Funeral Directors Chapel of Rest, with normal office hours viewing. (Monday to Friday 9.30am to 3.30pm)
• All arrangements for a Church Service (If required) and arrangements at the Cemetery or Crematorium.
• A Hearse and One following Limousine (To Seat Six People)
• An Oak veneered coffin fitted with an engraved nameplate with lining throughout.
• Time on the funeral up to a maximum of 2 hours

What Will It Cost?

The cost of the Funeral Directors service will be £600. The invoice will also include additional charges for disbursements and extra costs as mentioned below where appropriate, settlement of the invoice is in full, on or before the day of the funeral.

• Disbursements: Doctors Fees, Burial or Cremation Fees, Minister or Church fees.
• Extra costs: Floral Tributes, Press Notices, Catering Arrangements, Monumental Inscriptions, Ashes casket / Urn, Burial of Cremated remains, Repatriation, Embalming, Gratuities.

Financial Advice

If you receive:

• Income Support
• Family Credit
• Disability Working Allowance
• Housing Benefit or
• Council Tax Benefit

You may be able to get financial assistance towards the costs of the funeral.

To obtain advice contact your local Benefits Office; they can arrange an interview for you, or they can send you the claim form "SF200" assistance with funeral payments.

More information is available from the Department for Work and Pensions.

You can also get advice from your Welfare Rights Officer.

Useful Numbers

Registrar of Births and Deaths, Town Hall, King Street, Dukinfield 0161 342 5032 (Appointments Required)
Tameside General Hospital 0161 331 6000
Tameside Age Concern 0161 308 3697
Tameside Adult Services 0161 342 8355
Coroners Office 0161 476 0971
Welfare Rights Officers Freephone 0800 0749985
Benefits Agency (DSS) 0161 253 8200

Contact Information
Send us a Message	Registrar's Office Dukinfield Cemetery and Crematorium Hall Green Road Dukinfield SK16 4EP View local map
0161 330 1901
0161 330 9566